Norden, Frederik Ludwig.

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 GBP

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Description

Travels in Egypt and Nubia. London: for Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757
paper

First English edition, 2 volumes, folio (474 x 289mm.), wide margins, 2 half-titles, 2 engraved frontispieces (including one portrait), 162 engraved plates, maps and plans, engraved head- and tail-pieces and initials, contemporary calf, armorial bookplates of Richard Smith, Jesus College Cambridge and Montagu George Knight of Chawton, [Blackmer 1211; Hilmy II, 74; Weber II, 520], occasional light offsetting and (mostly marginal) spotting and soiling, bindings worn, one cover detached

Catalogue Note

"This important work was the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates are the most significant previous to those of Denon [see lot 252]" (Blackmer).

This copy is from the library of Montagu George Knight of Chawton, son of Jane Austen's nephew, Edward Knight.